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I've installed a Greater Than Gatsby Action but cant run it because I get 'The command SELECT is not currently available. I tried running a default Action and get 'The command FEATHER is not currently available.'
I went back to PREFERENCES to check everything is in order. I cant find anything amiss. Can someone help please?
I had this exact same issue with an action I was using. Look down the action list at the first "Select" command. Make sure that your layer is named the same as what is in that command. After that it should work.
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Is there still no good answers here? I've tried everything everyone has mentioned. Even my default actions are riddled with errors.
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There are indeed good answers here: please read what JJMack wrote in his posts. Running the action step by step may help you identify the cause of an issue.
In regards to this particular case:
The issue doesn't have to to with a selection of pixels. It has to do with layer names. Let me explain:
I noticed (in the screenshot) that the failed step tried to select the "Background" layer. You got the error because this layer was not available in your Photoshop document. Why? Two reasons:
1. You have a non-English Photoshop version, so the default layer is named differently (e.g. "Calque" in the French version, "Ebene" in German, etc).
2. Your document doesn't contain a Background layer.
Solution for #1: the action is not well crafted, as JJMack suggested. You don't have to run this action anyway. Just duplicate image and close the original file. Action developers need to understand that there are thousands of PS users using non-English PS locales.
Solution for #2: Duplicate the image and flatten it; close the original file.
Kind regards
Panos Efstathiadis
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Thank you! my issue was that I sent the image from the mobile app. It needed “flattening” to create a “background layer” before I could properly use the actions!
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You may never read this hit you just saved my life. I have searched through countless post and videos with ZERO correct answers to this issue. I finally read your post and it solves a problem I have spent countless hours trying to solve. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
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Yup, I don't get it--sometimes they work great and other times, they're all messed up
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Be sure you have the brushes loaded for that action and the layer is properly named, cased sensitive
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not really noone cam answer on reason wht we have the issues with actions
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I figured it out!! At least, I figured it out on my end. I wasn't just getting the select command not being available...but make and all kinds of other commands. My issue was that I was opening my files from ACR as a smart Object. There was no background layer. Since the actions start by "selecting the background" layer..it was getting confused. As soon as I renamed my first layer "Background"...I've had no issues!
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Yes action can have dependencies you required a Background layer. You could change the action to select the bottom layer instead. The action may then run or may fail some other ways. For a smart object layer's pixels can not be changes by Photoshop tools only smart filters and adjustments layer can change the layer composite view. Actions can have many dependencies.
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3 years later but thank you I was also having this issue - and flattening my image before applying actions helped so much
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THAT TOTALLY WORKED FOR ME! THANK YOU!!!!!!
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hola vivo en Mexico, y estube leyendo a todos y practicando cada tip.. y me seguia fallando la accion..pero buscandole por todos lados de mi parte lo solucione instalando el (ABR) que venia con el (ATN) y despues abri la ventana de las Brushes y active todas las casillas y me funciono sin errores.. bueno espero a alguien le sirva.. y ceuquen que el archivo accion traiga los 2 files el ABR & ATN e instalarlos ambos...saludos my friends
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I had the exact same problem.
I solved issue. Answer was not here in any post.
I made a copy of my images folder. Now
1) Create a new set by your name.
2) Create new action (Give a name what you want to do)
3) Open your picture and start your procedures.
4) at last (Instead of save as, you should use save command).
You still have the original folder. don't worry about your images.
5) Stop the action.
Go to file, Automate, batch now uncheck the box (Override action "Save As" Command)
Click ok
You are done here.
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hola alguien me puede ayudar con la accion de sandstorm para photoshop cc 2017 me da este error:
error of no more virtual tiles can bea allocated
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Save the action et up load the *.atn file to a file sharing service and post a link to it here so we can look at your action.
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A small issue??? I would think you would have major issues reading your action.
You recorded that asction on some document that had some size and resolution. I assume a png you opened. You had your Photoshop ruler units set to inches which is relative to DPI resolution..
You selected an rectangle area 4.563 inched down from the top and 14.219 inches in fron the left to 14.25 inches down from the top and 17.031 inches in from the left, An area around 10" high and 3" wide the cut/move that area from the target layer. Then you set set a different rectangle area and cut/move that from the layer. You then set an other selection and transform the curren layer selection. Your open png image layer that you cut pixels from. The layer selection is resize using bicubic interpolation.
If the action work close to way you want it to.. It can only be batched if all your png files have the same size and resolution and you want to cut the sane areas in all the pngs. Otherwise the selections may not be where you want and the size you want and the dicument canvas size may act as a clipping mask for the resize layer. Imag size is hard to deal with in Actions.
Single steping through your action on your png works like this. All the set selection steps seem to be off for this png file content.
Select move select move select transform
Crafting Actions Package UPDATED Aug 10, 2014 Added Conditional Action steps to Action Palette Tips.
Contains
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Hello JJMack,
thanks for your reply.
That is exactly what i am trying to do, the actions you had above, all my pngs are the same size and resolution, and i want to move that exact areas on all of the pngs, the image that i sent you was just a sample to help me get the movements correct, so it may look like i got the selections in the wrong place.
the issue is when i try to do a batch or even run the action on one png it will come up on the first image saying "select command not available" or something similar.
I have attached 2 of the pngs i want to apply the action to:
thanks very much in advance.
Arne Currie
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Your action ACtions cutee set selection in you action were recorded on a different size document . You action's set selections steps will not work. Nothing will be slected and the action will fail with errors,
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I found the Problem,
like you said PS was set to inches, which is the default, and the two images i had (although they were both 3300 x 2250 pixels) opened as different sizes in inches. I changed the units to pixels, re-recorded my action, and it worked perfectly.
thanks for your help,
i am a complete newbie to PS, only use it very occasionally, i mostly use Premiere Pro & LR.
Thanks,
Arne
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We all owe JJMack a huge thanks. He's consistently stepped in and helped folks out of trouble.
I'd like to address some of the issues that have been raised by the original question (and subsequent comments)
In short, though actions are easy to create, it doesn't mean they are easy to get right.
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I was hoping to find the answer to my issue here as well. But it seems my issue is a little different. The action runs fine until it gets to a select command, but for my issue, layer 10 is not available. All the other layers are created as the should, but except this one. Not sure if it is because layer 10 is a double-digit some I need to change something else, but since I never created anything with the word "layer" in it, I don't know what I would need to change. I start off with the locked background layer and the brush layer and that's it, made sure that it's in RGB mode and 8 bits, then run the action. After a few seconds it stops.
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Thanks. That fixed my issue
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For some strange reason, it didn't like using an image that I had previously ran the action on. Luckily I had the original image. Or maybe saving it as a different file? I opened the original the saved a copy, ran the script, and it ran just fine. I don't know how or why but it worked.